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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 3084478" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Dmac: my friend. You could not have described the daily experiences of a Fedex contractor in a more precise fashion. Without a family sustaining wage package and a solid benefit plan this prospective buyer will need ( as you have clearly described ) 3 drivers on every truck. One coming one driving and one leaving. Many trucks being used today especially HD's are simply 3/4 ton pickups with box body's on them and have a manufacturer projected life span of about 180,000 miles Even the P1000/1200's step vans have nothing more than medium duty frames under them. Both types were so consistently over loaded that burned out brakes and busted springs and spring cradles were a constant issue. Look within the next few years for X to require contractors to begin converting to CDL full air brake straight trucks with hydraulic tail gates to handle all the motor freight they continue to steal off the LTL's The cost of redundancy that contractors in the past could avoid but can no longer do so will put a mighty heavy burden on that 5 route contractor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 3084478, member: 58386"] Dmac: my friend. You could not have described the daily experiences of a Fedex contractor in a more precise fashion. Without a family sustaining wage package and a solid benefit plan this prospective buyer will need ( as you have clearly described ) 3 drivers on every truck. One coming one driving and one leaving. Many trucks being used today especially HD's are simply 3/4 ton pickups with box body's on them and have a manufacturer projected life span of about 180,000 miles Even the P1000/1200's step vans have nothing more than medium duty frames under them. Both types were so consistently over loaded that burned out brakes and busted springs and spring cradles were a constant issue. Look within the next few years for X to require contractors to begin converting to CDL full air brake straight trucks with hydraulic tail gates to handle all the motor freight they continue to steal off the LTL's The cost of redundancy that contractors in the past could avoid but can no longer do so will put a mighty heavy burden on that 5 route contractor. [/QUOTE]
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